Philology, Translation, Criticism

Philology, criticism, and translation are three techniques that reveal the constant importance of language to all forms of humanistic activity and artistic creativity.  This conference is a reminder of the risks that come from forgetting the realities of language and an important reminder of these disciplines’ vital role in regulating the relation between meaning and word, between power and value.

November 3

10:00 AM Leah Feldman (University of Chicago), “Embodying Philology: Theater Adaptation in Post-Soviet Central Asia”

11:00 AM Annette Lienau (Harvard University), “Between Pride and Scorn: The Conceptual Limits of the ‘Arabophone’ and Its Challenge to (post)-Orientalist Philologies”

2:00 PM Howard Eiland (MIT), “No Getting Around It”

3:00 PM Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh), “Ways of Working with Language”

4:00 PM Susan Gillespie (Bard College), “The Possibility of Translation”